Lampasas Grounding Near Dry Tortugas Delays Passengers
The Mal ory line steamer Lampasas ran aground near the Dry Tortugas while leaving Mobile, forcing transfer of passengers to the San Jacinto at Key West. The San Jacinto later brought Lampasas passengers to Tampa and will take Lampasas cargo and people to New York after a damage survey.
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Associated Press
Key West
Fla
Malory Line
San Jacinto
Lampasas
Pasas
New York
Mutton famine predicted by Poole at wool group meeting
J E Poole editor of the Chicago Live Stock World warned at the National Wool Growers Association annual session in Salt Lake City that a five year mutton shortage will grow acute. He compared current lamb marketing to past cattle slaughter and urged petitions to the Interstate Commerce Commission to revise sheep transport valuation clauses.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
J. E. Poole
Chicago Live Stock World
National Wool Growers’ Association
Poole
West
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nashville Fire Chief Survives Close Rescue During Blaze
Nashville fire on January 17 destroyed the Standard Candy Company building causing about $100,000 in damage. Fire Chief A A Rosetta and salesman C W Baker were injured. Baker fell through a skylight and may not recover. Rosetta, trapped in the basement, was rescued by his aide Frank Cassetta as smoke and water rose around him.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Standard Candy Company
A. A. Rosetta
C. W. Baker
Baker
Brandon Printing Company
Rosetta
Stragegic
Frank Cassetta
Cas
Nashville Grand Jury Indicts Liquor and Cigarette Sellers
Nashville grand jury indicted thirty liquor sellers and two cigarette sellers on Friday afternoon. Among the liquor defendants are William Luigart, owner of a local hotel, and Leon Faucon, owner of a restaurant. United Cigar Stores and Page and Sims Drug Store were named for alleged cigarette sales. arrests followed.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
William Luigart
Leon Faucon
United Cigar Stores
Page and Sims Drug Store
Lake Carriers Dread Passage of Seamen Bill
Organized opposition to the LaFollette seamen bill began in Cleveland with Lake Carriers Association officers. Chambers of commerce in lake cities will be asked to cooperate as vessel owners protest the bill and its potential impact on traffic.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
LaFollettee Seamen’s Bi 1
Lake Carriers”Association
Chambers of Commerce
Lake Cities
Lake
Ers
Graft Probe Opens in British Army Canteen System
London Jan 17 eight officers and eight civilians face charges of wholesale graft in army canteen purchases. Six officers and two NCOs from the war office quartermaster department stand accused along with Lipton Limited employees headed by Sir Thomas Lipton. Prosecutors say bribery has persisted for a decade and more names may follow. A general court martial was also convened to test bribery allegations in army canteens.
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Ty Associated Press
London
British Isles
Bowd Street
Quartermaster’s Department
War Office
Lipton, Limited
Sir Thomas Lipton
John Cansfield
Military Department
Ireland
Aldersholt
Salisbury Plain
Beardsley Holds Farm Under Siege in New York
Beardsley refuses surrender or messages as bullets fly from the attic. Sheriff Anderson halts traffic near the farm near Summerdale to prevent injuries while emissaries Van Dige and Walker approach with hands raised. Titusville police bar Beardsley’s brother from taking children into Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
Mayville
N. Y
Edward Beardsley
Summerdale
Beardsley
Timothy van Dige
William Walker
Sheriff Anderson
van Cise
Walker
Titusville
James Beardsley
Anderson
Senator Bacon’s Hidden Injury Baffles Georgia
Washington January 17 Senator Bacon of Georgia discovered he had a broken sixth rib on his left side from a bath tub fall in Albany. He felt little pain at first and continued his duties but was checked by a physician who said he was bound up like a mummy. He remained at his seat in the capital yesterday.
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Associated Press
Washington
Acon
Georgia
Albany
Bacon
Capitol
Montgomery Lawyers Enjoy Banquet Toasted by Governor ONeal
The Montgomery County Bar Association revived with a banquet at the Theatrical Club in Montgomery Alabama last night. Governor ONeal and Supreme Court members were invited with Major W A Gunter presiding as toastmaster as several happy speeches were delivered.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery County Bar Association
O'Neal
Supreme Court
W.A. Gunter
Supreme Court to hear Fourth Division cases next week
The Alabama supreme court and court of appeals will take up Fourth Division cases from Barbour Bullock Coffee Covington Crenshaw Dale Geneva Henry Houston and Pike counties. Notably Sam Spicer of Covington County faces review after life sentence for killing his wife to collect $20,000 on her life insurance. After hearings a lull follows until February 2 when the Eighth Division is called.
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Montgomery
Ala
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Barbour, Bullock
Coffee
Covington
Crenshaw
Dale
Geneva
Henry Houston
Pike
Sam Spicer
Covington County
Murjems
Five-Master Fuller Palmer Abandoned At Sea
The five masted schooner Fuller Palmer, missing for days, was abandoned at sea in a sinking condition. All hands were saved and are en route to Baltimore aboard a steamer that picked them up, per a message from Captain L. W. Clarke to the managing owners.
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Tland, Me
Fuller Palmer
Baltimore
L. W. Clarke
Honors Await Col. W. Gorgas to Be Surgeon General
The nomination of Col. William C. Gorgas of the Isthmian Canal Commission to be surgeon general of the army was prepared at the White House under President Wilson for formal presentation to the Senate.
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Army
Senate
Associated Press
Washington
William C. Gorgas
Isthmian Canal Commission
White House
Wilson
Death of J. H. Hines Prominent Labor Leader
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania on January 17 1753 former congressman and state legislator H Hines died at his home. He was active in labor matters and introduced bills in the legislature advancing miners and mine workers interests.
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Associated Press
Wilkes-Barre
H. Hines
Senate lobby hearings reopen in sugar campaign probe
Washington January 17 The senate lobby hearings were reopened to allow Cortland Smith of New York to testify about the American Press Association's role in circulating statements for various sugar interests in the tariff campaign. Smith testified at his own request.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Cortland Smith
New York
American Press Association
Smith
Rescuers Battle Seal in Three Hour Surf Rescue
Lifeguards engaged in a lengthy rescue attempting to free a seal after it stranded near the shore. The operation lasted about three hours as crews worked to guide the animal away from hazards.
Men Jump From Rigging of Sinking Mayflower
Two hundred miles east of Cape Race the Lusitania rescued Captain Halfyard and seven crew from the Newfoundland brigantine Mayflower after a savage gale. Crew fought high seas for over two hours to reach the stricken vessel, as men jumped from rigging into a tossing lifeboat.
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New York
Cape Race
Halfyard
Alexander
Captain Halfyard
St. John’s
Bahia
Brazil
O Neal’s Three Year Governor Term Ends As Inauguration Nears
Special to Item from Montgomery Alabama January 17 1915 the retiring governor Emmet O Neal completes three years in office since January 16 1911 and will leave January 18 1915 inaugurating the next chief executive under constitutional mandate. The race narrows to five candidates Comer Reuben Kolb Charles Henderson Walter D Seed and John H Wallace Jr as possible successors with the oath to be taken the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January following electors.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Emmet O'Neal
Totess
Comer
Reuben &. Kolb
Charles Henderson
Walter D. Seed
John H. Wallace, Jr
No Flowers for Girls From Harvard Students
Cambridge Mass January 17 Harvard students declining to send flowers to women guests at this year’s junior prom citing high entertaining costs. The prom committee announced cut rates for taxicabs for that evening as part of the new guidance.
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Ly Associated Press
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Ellis Denies Being Shot by Young Carl
A report states Ellis confirms he was not shot by Young Carl. The assailant remains unnamed and investigators seek details.
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Ellis
Young Carl
Woman’s tale of murder plot deemed false in New Jersey
Paul Carl the youth who allegedly confessed to shooting Monroe F Ellis at Beardsville N J was questioned at the Ellis home then returned to Somerville jail. Ellis denied the confession calling it rot and said he did not hear such yarn from the boy whom he once employed.
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New York
Paul Carl
Somerville
N. J
Monroe F. Ellis
Basking Ridge
Ellis
Frederick A. Pope
Carl
Four Die in Brockton Apartment Fire
Four persons died of suffocation in a Brockton Massachusetts three story brick apartment house fire on North Maine Street. Five others were injured, two likely to die, after jumping from upper floors as exits were cut off by the blaze.
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Associated Press
Brockton
Mass
Mary J. Monahan
Gernard Monahan
Crawford Lininthal
Lininthal
Maine Street
Freight rate cases dismissed by I C C
Three attacks on freight rates were dismissed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Omaha grain exchange protested grain rates from Omaha to Oklahoma. The Southwestern Missouri Millers' club challenged rates from mills in Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Kansas to Memphis. The New Orleans board of trade objected to tobacco shipment rates through the port of New Orleans.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Omaha Grain Exchange
Omaha
Oklahoma
Southwestern
Missouri Millers’ Club
Missouri
Arkansas
Kansas
Memphis
Tenn
New Orleans Board of Trade
New Orleans
Senate committee backs Blair Lee for Maryland seat
The privileges and elections committee votes 7 to 3 to recommend Blair Lee as Maryland’s senator to succeed Jackson. It also votes 9 to 1 to report adversely on Frank P. Glass's credentials to fill the late Johnston seat of Alabama.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Blair Lee
Senate
Jackson
Maryland
Frank P. Glass
Johnston
Alabama
Mobile Boosters Plan Aggressive Push for City Uplift
At a Friday meeting the Mobile Boosters expanded to twenty nine applicants for civic work. They formed a publicity committee to outline how to recruit, advertise, and organize volunteers and planned a public speaking program for future sessions.
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Mobile
W. F. Tebbets
F. C. Rhen
Forward Crusade
Rhen
Irvine
Fleming
Gower
Savage
Eastburn
Metager
Soost
Matlock
Barinn
Boosters
Tebbetts
Jury Report Sparks Critique by California Superior Court
In Redwood City California Judge George H Buck discharged a largely female jury after receiving its report He criticized the panel for unfavorably judging county officers based on insufficient knowledge and trivial concerns Eleven jurors were women and the court deemed the findings weak and unhelpful.
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Associated Press
Redwood City
Cal
California
George H. Buck
Superior Court
Relic of Titanic says he cannot support wife
Albert Horswill 38, who claimed to have been in charge of the last lifeboat and the only man among 45 women and children aboard, testified he cannot support his wife. He deserted her a week ago after marrying an 18-year-old last November. Judge Uhler ordered the couple to stay together and required Horswill to provide support.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Albert Horswill
Uhler
Horswill
Sunbury High Students Hurt in Trolley Car Crash
A trolley car struck a wagon carrying Sunbury High School seniors on a bridge. Twenty three students were injured, three seriously, as the wagon was hurled against the guard rail and spared a 40 foot plunge into water ten feet below.
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Associated Press
Sunbury
Twentythree Stude
Sunbury High School
Sakura Island becomes uninhabitable says Japanese seismologist
Professor Omori arrived in Kogoshima reports circling Sakura Island and noting a pronounced physical change with huge molten rocks forming a range across the island. Continued on page three.
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Associated Press
Kogoshima
Jan
Omori
Sakura
Firemen narrowly escape collision in Montgomery chase
Special to The Item. Montgomery fire laddies escaped serious injury when a large auto wagon, rushing to a blaze, struck a curb on South Perry Street while dodging a fast moving automobile. The crew avoided a direct collision with Flower Lumber Co vehicle.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jan. Biz
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